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The Association for the Care of People with Pervasive Developmental Disorders of the Region of Murcia (Astrada) has signed an agreement to increase collaboration in research, training and attention to diversity and maintain both entities.
"Hopefully in a few years many of our users are students of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena," said Jose Manuel Santos, CEO of Astrada.
"Our commitment is to meet personally each case, covering all the needs of the student," said the rector, Jose Antonio Franco.
The agreement will frame the actions of both entities aimed at members of the educational community with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
"There is a very mild autism, often undiagnosed, that does not prevent develop professionally but difficult social relations," said Francisco Javier Jimenez, vice president of Astrada.
"There are students UPCT trained in sensitivity to diversity," he remarked the Vice Chancellor for Students, Francisco Martinez.
Indeed, one of the summer courses that were held in July in Cartagena Polytechnic discussed the diagnosis and treatment of autism and was conducted in collaboration with Astrada.
"We propose a model of assistance to the student in which teachers or students who are forming in autism to support a particular student."
Astrada representatives explained.
Other collaborations covered by the agreement is the research for adapting communications, where the UPCT and Astrada already working to bring mobile communication system symbols.
In the same vein, adaptations to this group will take place in building construction and architecture.
Recently, the Vice President for Student and University Extension of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) received an award for his career of social commitment given by the Association for the Care of Persons with Autism and Developmental Disorders of the Region of Murcia (Astrada ).
Source: UPCT
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